Just a little tip: since the panels are read from left to right, the “movement” also goes rightwards. The fourth panel caused me to stop and reread the previous three because I went with the assumption that they had just crossed the spiky pit and Laz was lagging behind on the third; then the fourth told me it was the other way around.

It’s a lesson I learned from Hergé (Tintin’s creator). Whenever the focus character is progressing, he (or she) is moving towards the right. When shown moving towards the left, it’s because they meet in that panel an obstacle that forces them to stop.

And obviously in manga or other comics that are read from right to left; you’d have to mirror that.

um… no… you got that wrong, the movement is from the right side of the screen in panel 2 going towards the left side of the screen in panel 4, because the rope that Laz is hanging on gets cut in panel 4 causing the Not-Zombies ™ to fall into the spiked trap with all three of them on the left side, while in panel 3 they are further to the right and the rope is still intact…therefore they are moving further to the left side of the screen.

With all those bums back there, retreat was never an option anyway…SLASH! I like the way the kid chose max-safety, minimum-style method of traversing rope…. he must not be fully accustomed to the tail yet, since he didn’t use it as an additional grip point … or is it not monkey flexible?